Death in Early Modern Literature

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The St. John's University Humanities Review

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sjuhumanities@gmail.com

Death in Early Modern Europe

The Humanities Review, a literary journal published by the St. John’s University English Department in New York, seeks scholarly compositions for the Spring 2010 edition. This issue will focus on the political, social and aesthetic machinery of death in Early Modern literature. Possible topics of interest include:

• The Functions of Textual Death
• Theatrical Death
• Death and the Human Body
• Death and the Supernatural
• Memento mori in period art
• The Plague / Executions

We also desire cover art for the aforementioned theme. Artistic submissions in painting, photography, CG, & drawing are welcome. Monochrome, or the ability to be printed in black & white, is a must. Please submit via email attachment as a .TIFF file to sjuhumanities@gmail.com.

Deadline: Thursday, April 1, 2010.

John V. Nance and Christianne Cain, Edtors.

cfp categories:

american

bibliography_and_history_of_the_book

classical_studies

cultural_studies_and_historical_approaches

ecocriticism_and_environmental_studies

eighteenth_century

ethnicity_and_national_identity

film_and_television

gender_studies_and_sexuality

journals_and_collections_of_essays

medieval

poetry

popular_culture

postcolonial

renaissance

rhetoric_and_composition

romantic

science_and_culture

theatre

theory

travel_writing

twentieth_century_and_beyond

victorian

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